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Chile mountaineers: We found plane missing for half century
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| 2/8/15
Posted on 02/09/2015 4:46:11 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Chilean mountaineers say they have found the wreckage of a plane that crashed in the Andes 54 years ago, killing 24 people, including eight members of a professional soccer team.
The group said they came across the wreckage at an altitude of about 10,500 feet (3,200 meters) about 215 miles (360 kilometers) south of Santiago, the capital. Expedition member Leonardo Albornoz told Chile's Channel 7 they're keeping the exact site secret to prevent looting.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: disaster; plane
Wow. 54 years.
To: SoFloFreeper
Clouds have contained rocks for at least 54 years.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
The dreaded Cumulogranites.
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posted on
02/09/2015 5:05:59 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
02/09/2015 5:07:02 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: SoFloFreeper
I remember seeing the movie a while ago. Weren’t they taking shelter inside at least part of the hull?
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posted on
02/09/2015 5:09:30 AM PST
by
wastedyears
(I may be stupid, but at least I'm not Darwin Awards stupid.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Didn’t they make3 a cannibalism movie about that crash?
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posted on
02/09/2015 5:11:52 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: wastedyears
Yes; the fuselage had come apart, and they built a wall of sorts with luggage to enclose part of it.
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posted on
02/09/2015 5:15:55 AM PST
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: wastedyears; cuban leaf
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posted on
02/09/2015 5:17:03 AM PST
by
Eagles6
(Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: SoFloFreeper
That was on land.
It could take longer to find the missing Malaysian Airline 777.
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posted on
02/09/2015 5:19:31 AM PST
by
Erik Latranyi
(Walker/Cruz 2016)
To: wastedyears; cuban leaf; kearnyirish2
You’re thinking of a crash in late 1973, involving a rugby team.
Which led to the bumper sticker “Ruggers Eat Their Dead”.
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posted on
02/09/2015 5:22:36 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Erik Latranyi
“It could take longer to find the missing Malaysian Airline 777.”
or the missing birth certifiate.
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posted on
02/09/2015 5:22:41 AM PST
by
Mouton
(The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
To: DuncanWaring
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posted on
02/09/2015 5:46:45 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: DuncanWaring
One of my personal favorites.
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posted on
02/09/2015 5:47:11 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: Erik Latranyi
If 777 crashed. I have my doubts.
To: SoFloFreeper
“they’re keeping the exact site secret to prevent looting.”
More like keeping anyone else, other than themselves,
from looting it or they are holding out until the info
can be sold at the right price.
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posted on
02/09/2015 6:39:29 AM PST
by
Slambat
To: SoFloFreeper
It’s been their summer down there the last month or two, I’d expect this is the best time of year for these finds.
To: SoFloFreeper
...keeping the exact site secret to prevent looting... Maybe they should just upgrade to newer aircraft in order to alleviate the spare parts issue.
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posted on
02/09/2015 7:43:51 AM PST
by
GingisK
To: SoFloFreeper
What’s there to loot? Packets of peanuts and coca cola?
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